An excerpt from (the always wonderful)  Peggy Noonan's column in this weekend's Wall Street Journal:

Speaking at a New York Fundraiser this week:

"Democrats, he said to the Democratic audience, are 'an opinionated bunch.'  They always have a lot of thoughts and views.  Republicans, on the other hand—'the other side'—aren't really big on independent thinking.  'They just kinda sometimes do what they're told.  Democrats, y'all thinkin' for yourselves.'  It is never a good sign when the president gets folksy, dropping his g's, because he is by nature not a folksy g-dropper but a coolly calibrating intellectual who is always trying to guess, as most politicians do, what normal people think.  When Mr. Obama gets folksy he isn't narrowing his distance from his audience but underlining it.  He shouldn't do this."